(09-24-2020, 07:35 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: It's becoming pretty clear that a lot of people here have never been involved in any altercations before in their lives.

When the police went through the door they didn't start shooting, Breonna's boyfriend fired and hit a cop in his thigh which severed an artery... the cops started firing - they don't know who is armed and who is not but what they do know is one of their own is on the ground bleeding. In that situation, you believe your life is in danger... from everyone and anyone in the vicinity.

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Being a cop in this country is the hardest job on the planet - at least soldiers know who their enemy is the majority of the time - for cops it could be anyone at any time. Start respecting them and stop judging them for a few bad ones - cause that's the same stupid logic racists use.

None of us were there and they haven't released bodycam footage.
Even if any of us had experience being a cop or a soldier in a shootout, we still wouldn't be able to claim certainty about what happened.
Your assertion that three cops had to continue shooting just because a fourth cop had been shot and was bleeding is questionable at best.  Is that the right way to get first aid for him? He was probably still able to walk or crawl.  They probably could have gotten him to cover without firing any more shots.  I think they should have been trained that way.

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